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Maine Association for Infant Mental Health

Infant mental health is an inter-disciplinary field of research, clinical practice and public policy-making concerned with maximizing the emotional, physical, social and cognitive well-being of zero to five year old children and their caregivers.

Maine Association for Infant Mental Health1 week ago

It’s developmental. 💯

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Maine Association for Infant Mental Health1 week ago

Threes are exactly who they are supposed to be when they are three.
We don’t have to make them practice writing or do things we think they will need to do when they are in kindergarten.

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Fives are exactly who they are supposed to be when they are five.
We don’t have to make their bodies be extra-still and quiet or do things we think they will need to do when they are in third grade.

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Tens don’t need to do things they’ll have to do in middle school. Twelves don’t need to do things they’ll have to do in high school. Fifteens don’t need to do things they’ll need to do to be able to live independently.

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You don’t have to know how to parent an adult yet. You’re parenting the little one right in front of you.

You’re doing a great job.

They’re doing a great job.

[Image description: A picture of a child walking in sandals on a wooden bridge or dock. Text over the top of it reads: “The three-year-old is not an incomplete five-year-old; the child is not an incomplete adult. Never are we simply on our way, we have arrived.” —Joseph Chilton Pearce. The image was made by Raised Good. End description.]

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